British Executions

Thomas George Tattersall

Age: 50

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 15 Aug 1905

Crime Location: 2 Waterworks Yard, Northgate, Wakefield

Execution Place: Wakefield

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Billington

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Thomas George Tattersall was convicted of the murder of his wife Rebecca Tattersall 29.

He attacker her with a hatchet and cut her throat at their home in Waterworks Yard, Northgate in Wakefield on 3 July 1905.

see National Archives - ASSI 52/2

see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 05 July 1905

see Wakefield and West Riding Herald - Saturday 08 July 1905

see Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 16 August 1905

see Homicide 1905